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Provides the full text of 440 works of 80 U.S. novelists and short-story writers, 1774-1850. This database comprises first editions of American novels and short stories written before 1850 by authors significant during their lifetimes. Based on Jacob Blanck's Bibliography of American Literature and Lyle Wright's American Fiction and complemented by the online Wright American fiction, 1851-1875 and the microform collection Wright American Fiction.